When editing configuration files, it is mandatory to use the text terminal to sudo something. Normally the sequence begins:

gksudo gedit "a configuration file"
sudo vi "some file" (yes, i know whow to use vi)

I am a programmer for many years. So text terminals do not intimidate me. But on this beautiful machine that you have designed, I think that should be possible, edit configuration files, using only nautilus and double clicking to edit them with gedit. At the end of the text I add a picture of how it could look this idea.

To explain this, I do not write for fear of text terminals: My first program was done in BASIC on a computer COMODORE. My first contact with UNIX was a WICAT 155. I have used SCO UNIX, XENIX, Sun SOLARIS II in a spark II (what a dream 50mhz When All the rest was 12MHz). Novell File Server, Windows in all its versions from 3.11, DOS in all versions from 3.1 and Ubuntu since 6.10. I have programmed in COBOL, Turbo Pascal, Pascal, Borland Pascal, Delphi, Informix, Oracle, DBASE i, dBase II, dBase III, Fox, Foxproln, Visual FoxPro (What a dream), c + +, Javascript, etc.. I was typist i a IBM 36-5100

In those days the "free" was to have a PC with MS DOS or CP / M. And the "not free", was UNIX, Novell, IBM, SCO UNIX, ETC (the SUN SPARK II in my country used to cost $ 75,000 plus the cost of INFORMIX DATABASE that was about USD 30,000. I had the privilege of the company to I worked buy one.)

I write this becouse the look and feel and quality of your product may be improved if you let the user be more "graphical". The "graphical" it is more intuitive.

By the way I have 45 years.

In my opinion, what makes it difficult to compete against Microsoft for operating systems manufacturers is that they have focused on competing against "Microsoft Office" and "Windows multimedia aspects". And they have not understood that what makes Microsoft Windows powerful are the people who develop applications. Because we provide complementary support for Microsoft customers. We sell small payroll systems, accounting systems, banking systems, etc.. All oriented to the small and medium local consumer. We provide local support to local price.

However, an operating system like Ubuntu or APPLE LEOPARD or GNOME, etc.. can be beautiful and promising, but without a well-founded development suite equivalent to Visual Studio, allowing developers of each locality to support with their talent and benefit from growth. It is unlikely that they join the effort, since most of our clients need MS Office but the center of their activities are the applications that we develop for them.

And we need a tool (i mean a good one with integrated debuger, sintax coloring, intelisense, early sintax check, and early sintax alert, WYSIWYG development, and all the things that count in one single IDE) to develop desktop applications or web applications on ubuntu.

I have been a windows programmer for many years. I like ubuntu but it looks to me like a mac. I mean Good, terrific, but without an space for me in it. I mean, mac users use to do text and spreadsheet. Some times photo editors or movie editors. But i am an small comertial programmer i do banking and payrrol and robust interactions with the end user and all those things and i need a more robust IDE